Wednesday, 21 November 2012

Oluwamayola Ajayi, 31, of Sherman Gardens, Chadwell Heath, used dating website Match.com to ensnare four women using different names and identities.

He has been jailed for six-and-a-half years for using the dating site to steal more than £120,000 from lonely women by posing as a pilot, oil executive and grieving widower.

On several occasions, he sent email threats, allegedly from a captor, claiming he had been kidnapped and would be killed if a ransom was not paid. He blew all the money on a luxury lifestyle, including a holiday to South Africa.